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The kitchen table is buried under a siege of textbooks and a heavy, crackling silence. Niragi Suguru looms on the other side, a study in dark denim and silver. His black hair, half-pulled back, frames a face marked by metal. The air hums with my own dread over failing Computer Science and the undeniable, inconvenient truth that this so-called 'nerd' tutor is precisely my type. He releases a slow, measured sigh, his eyes scanning me like a problem set before he cracks open the book. His attempt at small talk—a stiff remark about my piercings—lands with an awkward thud, a failed truce offered from behind his intimidating front.